The Guardian - Quick crossword No 10,487 - Dec 15 2003

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Clues Answers
(Players of) improvised drums STEELBAND
Cause to explode DETONATE
Crossing of river FORD
Dreary and colourless DRAB
Expand - talk at length DILATE
Exultant COCKAHOOP
Island state in the Indian Ocean MAURITIUS
Its child is loving and giving FRIDAY
London river THAMES
Mythical beast of Crete MINOTAUR
Clues Answers
Name of three English rivers AVON
Northumbrian river TYNE
Opiate popular in Victorian times LAUDANUM
Overland (anag) - hut RONDAVEL
Single loop of needlework STITCH
South European river DANUBE
Story recounting events NARRATIVE
Very thin SKINNY
Welsh and English river SEVERN
Yorkshire river HUMBER